18 Quotes by Isaac Asimov about robots

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    Work of each individual contributes to a totality and so becomes undying part of a totality. That totality is human life. Past and present and to come forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens and thousands of years. And has been growing more elaborate, and on the whole more beautiful.

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    Is everything normal now?” “Well he hasn’t got religious mania, and he isn’t running around in a circlespouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he’s normal.” (45)

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    I have the shape of a human being and organs equivalent to those of a human being. My organs, in fact, are identical to some of those in a prosthetized human being. I have contributed artistically, literally, and scientifically to human culture as much as any human being now alive. What more can one ask?

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    A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

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    A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

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    Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

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